μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general Type 1122.
Within the index

Filed under Ogre killed through other tricks.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Faithful hound kills ogre's wifeMan pretends to cut toenails of cannibal woman: kills herOgress lured in bridal bed and killedOgress tricked into falling into boiling spring
Filed beside it
Ogre killed with his own iron barCliff ogre thrown as food to his childrenOgre killed by blades falling in his foodGiant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the strokes of his iron bar, until he falls down dead
Carried in tale types

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